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Month: April 2006

LDS Employment Resource Center

LDS Employment Resource Center

     It is a known fact that 80% of all job opportunities in today’s work places are never advertised.  PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE THROUGH NETWORKING is where today’s job searchers find success.      “He that is greatest among you is servant of all.”  The Lord’s temporal affairs officer is the Bishop.  His Ward Employment Specialist (WES) helps everyone with resources and networking education through LDSEC, located in the Magna Bishop’s Storehouse – 3545 South 7200 West.      Many hands make work…

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Tools of the Trade

Tools of the Trade

     While serving a mission in South America some Elders lived 4 to 6 in an apartment and for $20.00 each could hire a maid, allowing them more proselytizing time and excellent employment for the maid.      Few of us can afford a maid, but with marvelous tools available, we can make hundreds of jobs easy using washers, dryers, vacuums, microwaves, blenders, mixers, etc.      With a jack and wrench you can change your own oil for under $10.00.  The…

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Getting Out Of Debt

Getting Out Of Debt

     Did you know that adding just $100 a month to your house payment can save you over $7,687 in interest on a 15 year mortgage (5% APR) and over $57,035 if you have a 30 year mortgage (5.5% APR)?  Additionally, your payments will end 27 months ($32,027) and 79 months ($71,047) early, respectively.                                                                                                              If your house payment is $1,000 a month, in a minimal tax bracket you have to earn $1,552.57, which (after taxes and tithing) equals…

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Funk

Funk

Ever had one of those days when you have nothing to do – rather, you have lots of busy work, but none of it is very important or significant?  You’re in a funk.      The US Department of Labor estimated that 78% of all labor performed in the work place is non-essential – people making work to avoid work.  And we do a lot worse at home.      When you’re feeling funky, think for a moment what one thing you…

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Hard Work

Hard Work

     It’s one thing to try and stimulate the economy with tax or interest rate cuts, but it is entirely another to reshape attitudes about more prudent and balanced budgeting of time and money.       The major objective of the Church’s Welfare Plan is to provide WORK for both givers and receivers.  To deny people the opportunity to contribute and be self reliant through application of their own energies and talents is to leave them short-changed.      The Bishop’s Storehouse…

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“Let your light so shine . . .”

“Let your light so shine . . .”

     “Those sure are big sunflowers,” I said to my Bishop’s councilor as he irrigated his garden.  I saw him working in his back yard one day on my way home from elementary school.  I thought the Provo street ditches were just for kid’s summer water fights, and had never before seen a garden watered in this way.      “When they are ready, you can have one and you can eat the seeds and plant some in your own garden…

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Something is better than nothing

Something is better than nothing

     Having “enough and to spare” is the economic definition of prosperity.  This concept doesn’t simply mean we have change left in our pockets after we bought all we want.  It includes the foresight to recognize and be prepared for future needs for self and others.      When you purchase items for immediate use, get one or two more for inventory against future needs.  You are saving yourself another trip to the store, if nothing else.  But, it’s a good…

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Medical Moments

Medical Moments

     “My baby has been running at both ends for more than a week,” my Home Teaching young mother said when she brought her daughter to my home for a blessing before going to a doctor’s appointment.       “Did you know that chamomile and catnip teas can cure colic,” I asked?      “Where were you when my first three kids almost died of colic,” she charged?      As the baby nursed on the warm brew the blessing was given –…

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Servants or Suckered

Servants or Suckered

     In 2Ne 2:14  “. . .God . . . created . . . things to act and things to be acted upon.”  In verse 26, Lehi concludes that  “we . . . become free forever, knowing good from evil;  to act for (ourselves) and not be acted upon.”   The entire chapter tells us so much about the blessings of the Savior’s atonement.      Plain and precious is every gospel principle, and each teaches us how to be more godlike,…

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Poison Control

Poison Control

     As technology distances us from the past, we not only become more dependant upon computer- controlled logistics, but we become more removed from self sufficient know-how of our pioneer heritage.      In the winter of 1847, everything was in short supply after the pioneers first arrived in the Salt Lake Valley.  Imagine having to forage for all your needs.   Remember, vegetables do not come from a store, nor does milk come from a truck.  Cotton does not grow in…

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